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The Pitchfire Startup Competitors has been an opening-day spotlight for years at RoboBusiness, which runs Oct. 16-17 in Santa Clara, Calif. Pitchfire, which occurs on Oct. 16 from 4-4:45 PM on the Santa Clara Conference Heart, is a must-attend occasion for buyers, robotics entrepreneurs and innovation leaders alike.
Six robotics startups will compete this 12 months for a $5,000 first-place prize. Every startup will get 5 minutes to explain their firm’s answer, enterprise mannequin, worth proposition and extra. After all of the contestants have pitched, Pitchfire judges will examine notes, attain a consensus, and announce a winner based mostly on who they consider to be finest primed for industrial success.
Firms which have beforehand competed in Pitchfire embrace Glidance, Tatum Robotics, Southie Autonomy, Sadako Applied sciences, Autonomous Marine Techniques, inVia Robotics, Catalina Well being, Cubit, Rokid, RightHand Robotics, Gentle Robotics and Knightscope. Final 12 months’s winner, Glidance, not too long ago raised a $1.5 million seed spherical.
New to this 12 months’s Pitchfire occasion, every of the startups shall be exhibiting within the Startup Showcase on the RoboBusiness expo flooring. Judges for the competitors are Lisa Chai, basic associate, Interwoven Ventures; Rugved Hattekar, senior lidar software program developer, Luminar; Ellen Chisa, associate, boldstart ventures; Eric Truebenbach, managing director, Teradyne Robotics Ventures; Ted Larson, CEO, OLogic.
RoboBusiness is the main occasion for the industrial robotics ecosystem. There shall be 70-plus audio system, 70-plus exhibitors and demos on the expo flooring, networking receptions and rather more.
Here’s a have a look at this 12 months’s individuals:
Copper Robotics
Date Based: Might 1, 2024
Location: Austin, Texas
No. of staff: 2
Funding so far: $0
Web site: https://www.copper-robotics.com/
RoboBusiness Sales space: 725
Copper Robotics is growing a robotics framework for creating quick and dependable robots. The corporate’s founder, Guillaume Binet, stated Copper presents a high-level configuration system and a Rust-first API. It makes use of Rust’s zero-cost abstractions and a data-oriented strategy to realize sub-microsecond latency on commodity {hardware}, avoiding heap allocation throughout execution. Guillaume stated Copper leverages Rust’s strengths, akin to reminiscence security, concurrency, and zero-cost abstractions, to construct an ecosystem round Rust and robotics.
Date Based: April 1, 2023
Location: Seattle
No. of staff: 2
Funding so far: $0
Web site: https://www.dexman.ai/
RoboBusiness Sales space: 822
This startup is constructing DEX, an AI working system (OS) for robotic arms. Firm founder and CEO Mihai Jalobeanu stated the OS permits integrators (and even end-users) to quickly develop and deploy sturdy and dependable vision-based robotic options with out writing code. DEX permits workforce augmentation with cobots in unstructured environments, high-mix / low-volume manufacturing and lots of different circumstances the place current strategies fail or can be cost-prohibitive.
In contrast to classical working methods, DEX doesn’t require a display, keyboard and mouse. Somewhat, customers work together with DEX in the identical manner they might with an apprentice, explaining and exhibiting the steps and methods to realize the duty, supervising the execution and offering corrections if wanted.
Isochronic AG
Date Based: Sept. 1, 2020
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
No. of staff: 15
Funding so far: $3.5M
Web site: https://isochronic.com/
RoboBusiness Sales space: 727
Isochronic is growing new varieties of choose & place industrial robots, which allow simultaneous components transport for the primary time. In June 2024, the corporate shipped and put in its first industrial pilot system. It’s now participating with further prospects throughout Europe & North America.
Paradigm Robotics
Date Based: Might 27, 2022
Location: Austin, Texas
No. of staff: 7
Funding so far: $35,000
Web site: https://www.paradigmrobotics.tech/
RoboBusiness Sales space: 729
Paradigm Robotics’ flagship product, FireBot, is a high-temperature resistant unmanned floor car constructed to enhance firefighting, public security, and emergency operations in construction fires, emergencies, disasters, incidents, and unsafe environments. FireBot is outfitted with a modular and superior suite of sensors that present life-saving, mission-critical situational consciousness in essentially the most hazardous situations.
FireBot may be deployed into structural fires or different instantly harmful to life or well being (IDLH) environments to assist main and secondary search operations, detect and establish hazards, reply to HazMat & RIC conditions, monitor hearth dynamics (find the seat of a fireplace, extension and so on), monitor air high quality & structural integrity, 3D map constructions, carry gear and payloads (as much as 300lbs), assist post-incident auditing, act as a TED machine, and act as a assist machine for hearth floor operations.
Robotics 88
Date Based: February 24, 2021
Location: Boston
No. of staff: 4
Funding so far: $0
Web site: https://www.robotics88.com/
RoboBusiness Sales space: 824
Robotic 88’s autonomous unmanned plane system (UAS) empowers land managers to mitigate wildfire threat and improve ecosystem well being by restoring the pure hearth regimes of our forest landscapes by means of the improved software of prescribed hearth. The core innovation of this UAS is its capability to fly at low altitudes under the tree cover to map vital vegetation knowledge from the forest flooring.
This UAS combines autonomous decision-making algorithms, mapping, impediment avoidance, and multi-UAS coordination to supply worth at each stage of the burn: Pre-burn maps inform very best climate situations and useful resource necessities, and post-burn maps assist full mop-up (guaranteeing the fireplace is out) and long-term forest monitoring. Aerial ignition and situational consciousness allow bigger and safer prescribed burns.
Summer time Robotics
Date Based: January 1, 2020
Location: Campbell, Calif.
No. of staff: 7
Funding so far: $0
Web site: https://www.summerrobotics.ai/
RoboBusiness Sales space: 723
Summer time Robotics has developed a robotic visible intelligence system, which it stated provides robots 10x quicker response occasions. The corporate licenses its software program to companions that construct imaginative and prescient {hardware}. This {hardware}, coupled with its software program, permits robots to carry out duties that till now have solely been in a position to be carried out by people, e.g. fastening bolts on a shifting automotive line, with unpredictable motions.
Summer time Robotics stated it’s at present working with its first associate to carry a product to market in early 2025 within the automotive manufacturing business.
